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THE SECRET OF ALL POWERS. 



The Chart of Powers from Transcendent Science's Secret Doctrine 

of Life. 




Centres or systems of psychic speech and their principal material 
association. 

A. Auditory centre. 
V. Visual centre. 

M. Motor Centre of Speech. 

B. Motor Centre of Writing'. 
00. Intellectual centre. 

This chart is the Key of all intellectual, psychic and spiritual power. 



THE SECRETS OF ALL POWER. 

Probably you have read of the great successes of certain men who 
have made such wonderful and astounding- names in the history of 
the world. Such men, whether they consciously or unconsciously 
knew the secret of their powers and successes, made themselves 
famous by unfolding their super conscious mind. 

Now the superconscious mind contains all the secrets of Occult and 
Magnetic Power. Napoleon, who was a master of the Superconscious 
state, used to obtain practically eight hours rest in fifteen minutes 
by looking intently at a dark spot on the walls of his room. 

Now this superconscious state is called by the Hindus "Samadhi" 
or superconsciousness. I will give you the principal secrets of this 
state and how to enter into it, so that you may develop psychic-power. 
There are many methods to do this with, but they are not practical, 
and the most of them are so mystical that the majority of sensible 
people would be foolish to think even of doing them, for they are 
dangerous. I think that the so-called trance states should be left 
alone, especially with the beginner. 

Every night for at least a week, just before you retire, or better, 
just before you fall asleep, give to yourself this suggestion: "I will 
unfold superconsciously." Now, in a few days, you will find that 
you are actually thinking and acting superconsciously; this is the 
secret of Napoleon 's power. 

This exercise which I am going to give you will enable you to go 
into the superconscious state, but you will have to practice and prac- 
tice to do it. For if you do not you will merely hypnotize yourself. 

There are what might be termed three bodies in man, first, the 
conscious, then the Think body, and then the Causal body; if you 
succeed, and you should do so, in entering into this Causal body, you 
may Levitate your body or accomplish materialisation, and also Astral 
body travelling and projection. 

The method is as follows: Sit in an upright position on the floor, 
that is, have your body above the hips held in a perfect line, your 
legs under you, now take your left and right hands and do this: with 
the thumbs of both hands placed over the holes in the ears, firmly 
close them, now take the forefingers and close your eyes, or rather 
hold them over the eyes, then next take the middle finger of the right 
hand and close the right nostril and breathe in the vital principle 



(Prana) of the atmospheric air, which is an inhalation, after breathing 
in this manner, or one full inhalation, take the middle finger of the 
left hand and close both or the other nostril, thus as you will see you 
are holding (inhibiting) the air into your lungs, then after a few 
seconds expel the air through both nostrils after you take away both 
middle fingers, but do not remove the other fingers or your hands. 
Now let your inhalation be taken in eight seconds, your retention to 
be a full forty seconds and your exhalation in twenty seconds. Do 
this at first slowly, for a few weeks until you can double it. If you 
desire to double it you will be on the road to still higher power. Now 
after you have done this for at least two weeks, you will practice the 
same exercise excepting placing the fingers over the eyes : You will 
concentrate your mind on the tip end of your nose, and look intently 
thereon, until the ecstatic trance-like state is produced. If you practice 
just like I have herein told you, you will overcome and transcend the 
hypnotic state and go into the Twilight state which is superconscious- 
ness, or what I call neither asleep nor awake. This state is what I 
term Transcendental Consciousness or Consciousness without Thought, 
this Science is termed by me as Transcenosis, and its phenomenon, 
Transcendentalisation. 

If you practice this for Levitation, you will incessantly suggest over 
and over to yourself that you are becoming positive to the law of 
gravitation and that your entire body is becoming lighter and lighter, 
and that every time that you breathe you will overcome the attrac- 
tions of the earthly magnetism. 

If for astral propelling, astral body travelling, or projection, etc., 
you will merely will and make the suggestion while willing that you 
will do the same. You must remember that you not only accomplish 
an aim by practice but by exercise. And that you do or accomplish 
your aim not only by thinking but by acting. You should use some 
very good occult incense, something that will tend to tranquillize 
your mind. If you write in to our Society you may purchase a large 
box of the best incense for $1.00. 

If you sincerely practice these instructions especially for Astral 
projection and Astral travelling, just before you fall asleep at night, 
you will have a conscious knowledge of your experiences when you 
awake. If you enter into the state that I have mentioned, you will 
remember all. Again you will not any longer need an alarm clock 
to awaken with, as you can awaken yourself at will. Again you may 



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heal yourself or others by practicing this method. 

If you use the blue or purple crystals which you may also procure 
from us, you can become a genuine clairvoyant by entering this state, 
for the crystal will tend to concentrate your mind upon what is 
necessary to an unfoldment. And again, the blue or purple crystal 
is better than the mere transparent ones as they tire the optic nerve 
and might produce paralysis of the eye nerve. 

All power is contained in the air that you breathe, so all depends 
upon the knowledge of storing in this air, and of securing the vital 
principle that it contains. This is the entire secret of all oriental 
Psychic powers — But of course this has nothing to do with the spir- 
itual ones. 

The student should know that he must not eat meat, or use any 
heavy foods, smoke tobacco, and he should always just previous to 
the practice of his exercises drink a glass of hot milk with, a little 
lump of butter melted in it. 

After you have entered into the state of Consciousness without 
thought, all depends upon Polarisation and Vibration to accomplish 
what phenomena that you desire. The most interesting phenomena is 
produced by suggestion. Complete self -catalepsy, oriental burial 
alive, suspension of life itself, and many other occult things may all 
be accomplished by the method that I have given you. 

You will notice when you first practice, that the body will perspire 
freely, in the next stage it will quiver, then, lastly, it will jump, but 
do not worry, for this will in time vanish. Also, you will in little or 
no time, commence to have visions and to see the departed dead, 
but later on this will all materialize into genuine Psychic Power. 
You should not to start with, and especially alone, try astral body 
traveling, for it might end up disastrously for you. It is always best 
to have a friend on hand, and tell him if you do not awaken in fifteen 
minutes to call you and to say: "When I count three you will be 
wide awake." This is the safest plan, and one of the best for pre- 
vention. Prevention is a great thing in Occultism. Remember that 
you must practice these exercises 4 times every day. 

Suggestion along with this great and simple and PRACTICAL 
method that I have given you will unfold all the great psychic centres 
in your psychic-economy. In the chart on this work, which is in 
this work, you will see how that these centres work, communicate, and 
assist in the telegraphic communications of what is to ; be done. Prom 



the auditory centre man comes in contact with the visual centres^ 
and these act both dependent and independent of one another. The 
psychic depends only in a little way upon the physical, but the physi- 
cal depends upon the psychical, and again the causal depends on none 
of these, because it is the All in man. 

If you practice for automatic writing, use the same method, and 
have paper and pencil ready and you will be surprised at the instant 
result. The moment that your mind ceases to vibrate with your con- 
scious thoughts, that very instant you will commence to make great 
progress. You must always "Expect" and then this again will won- 
derfully tend to assist the operations of your mind along the way of 
directing it to its final unfoldment and realization. The subconscious 
mind is only the animal mind in man, when we come to the conscious 
mind which is the mere thinking and acting one in man, but above all 
this we find the region of pure mystery and genius, which is the Super- 
conscious mind — in the sublime regions of Intuition. If you would 
develop your intuitive powers first unfold this superconscious mind, 
for it is the secret of all power. 

When you associate yourself with a thing you become that thing. 
So also with this superconsciousness, you will become it. The lever 
of Archimedes is not any other thing but this control of this psychic 
air, which the orientals term Prana, or the Vital principle. These 
psychic centres which I have shown you on another page of this work 
constitute an apparatus which combines the activity of your sense 
centres into a higher entity, and this is brought about by practicing 
this exercise, which produces an ecstatic condition of your mind, and 
by associating yourself with what you desire through self-suggestion. 
Now Polarisation and Vibration are all included in this exercise, so 
all the mere "talk and philosophy I have left out, and in the very 
start I have given you only what is practical and reasonable, and 
which my own common sense prescribes and approves. Shakespeare, 
Milton, Napoleon, Christ, Confucius, and thousands of men have con- 
sciously or unconsciously practiced or exercised this selfsame prin- 
ciple in the abstract, this explains their wonderful successes in life. 
The same is possible and the way is opened now to all — so all that 
you have to do is to practice. The nail is not driven into the slab 
of wood with one blow of the hammer, but with many, so if you 
do not succeed, do -not find fault with this lesson, for the fault is and 
lies within your own self; and by "REPETITION," keening it up, 



you are bound to succeed. A house is not built in a day; thus it is 
with everything. "BE SUCCESSFUL IN ALL THINGS THROUGH 
PRACTICE." 

ORIENTAL PHRENOLOGY. 

Phrenology is a Greek compound, signifying a discourse on the 
mind. The system which exclusively passes by this name, was founded 
by Dr. Francis Joseph Gall, a German physician, born in 1757. The 
brain is the organ by and through which mind in this life is mani- 
fested. This truth is now disputed scarcely anywhere. 

Phrenologists conjectured that different brains differ in quality, 
but were long without any indications of these differences. The doc- 
trine of the Temperaments has thrown considerable, though not per- 
fect, light on this point, and for this we are indebted to Dr. Thomas, 
of Paris. There are four temperaments, accompanied with different 
degrees of power and activity, in other words, quality of brain. These 
are the bilious, the nervous, the sanguine, and the lymphatic. These 
temperaments were observed and distinguished long before the dis- 
covery of phrenology, though to little purpose. They figure in the 
fanciful philosophy of Burton, and similar writers of former times, 
and much nonsense is written connected with them. Phrenology has 
adopted them, and made them intelligible and useful. They are sup- 
posed to depend upon the constitution of particular bodily systems. 
The muscular and fibrous systems being predominantly active, seem 
to give rise to the bilious temperament. The name is equivocal, and 
therefore not well applied ; the other three are more appropriate. 
The brain and nerves predominating in activity, give the nervous ; 
the lungs, heart and blood-vessels, the sanguine ; while the glands and 
assimilating organs present the lymphatic temperament. The pre- 
dominance of these several bodily systems is indicated by certain 
sufficiently obvious external signs, whence our power of recognizing 
them. The nervous temperament is marked by silky, thin hair, thin 
skin, small, thin muscles, quick muscular motion, paleness, and often 
delicate health. The whole nervous system, brain included, is active, 
and the mental manifestations vivacious. It is the temperament of 
genius and refinement. The bilious has black, hard, and wiry hair, 
dark or black eyes, dark skin, moderate fullness, but much firmness of 
flesh, with a harsh outline of countenance and person. The bilious 

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temperament gives much energy of brain and mental manifestation, 
and the countenance is marked and decided; this is the temperament 
for enduring much mental as well as bodily labor. The sanguine 
temperament has well-defined forms, moderate plumpness and firm- 
ness of flesh, light or red hair, blue eyes, and fair and often ruddy 
countenance. It is accompanied with great activity of the blood- 
vessels, an animated countenance, and a love of outdoor exercise. 
With a mixture of the bilious — for in most individuals the tempera- 
ments are mixed, often all four occurring in one person — it would 
give the soldier's temperament. The brain is active. The lymphatic 
temperament is indicated by a round form, as in the fat and corpu- 
lent, soft flesh, full • cellular tissue, fair hair, and pale skin. The 
vital action is languid, the circulation weak and slow. The brain also 
is slow and feeble in its action, and the mental manifestations corre- 
spond. 

THE PRIMITIVE FACULTIES OF MIND, AS CONNECTED WITH 
THEIR ORGANS IN THE BRAIN. 

Mind, which was considered by the metaphysicians as a single thing 
or essence, was said by them to be capable of being in different states, 
in each of which states it made one of its various manifestations, as 
memory, judgment, anger, etc. In no particular does the phrenologi- 
cal hypothesis differ more from the metaphysical than in this. The 
phrenological doctrine is, that the brain, the organ of the mind, is 
divided into various faculties, each of which has its own mode of 
acting. It is held — 

First. That by accurate observation of human actions, it is pos- 
sible to discriminate the dispositions and intellectual power of man, 
such as love, anger, benevolence, observation, reflection, etc. 

Secondly. That the true form of the brain can be ascertained from 
the external form of the head ; the brain, though the softer substance, 
being what rules the shape of the skull, just as a shell takes its form 
from the animal within. 

Thirdly. The organs or parts into which the brain is divided, all 
of which organs are possessed by every individual except in the case 
of idiocy, appear on the brain's surface in folds or convolutions, some- 
what like the bowels or viscera of an animal, but have a well-ascer- 
tained fibrous connection through the whole substance of the brain 



with one point at its base, called the medulla oblongata, which unites 
the brain to the spinal cord. The organs have thus each a conical 
form from the medulla oblongata to the surface ; the whole being not 
inaptly compared to the stalks and flower of a cauliflower. 

Fourthly. Tbe brain is divided into two equal parts called hemi- 
spheres: on each side of the fosse or division between these hemi- 
spheres the same organ occurs ; all the organs are therefore double, in 
analogy with the eyes, ears, etc. But when the term organ is used, 
both organs are meant. The organs which are situated close to the 
middle line drawn vertically on the head, though close to each other, 
are nevertheless double; for example, Individuality, Benevolence, 
Firmness, etc. 

Fifthly. Beside the brain proper, there is a small brain, attached 
to the hinder part of the base of the brain, called the cerebellum. 

Sixthly. The brain, including the cerebellum, is divided into the 
anterior, middle, and posterior lobes. The cerebellum forms part of 
the posterior lobe. The anterior lobe contains all of the intellectual 
faculties; the posterior and lower range of the middle lobe are the 
regions of the animal propensities; while the moral sentiments are 
found, with a sort of local pre-eminence, to have their organs devel- 
oped on the top or coronal surface of the head. 

The gradation in size of the organs is thus denoted : 
Very Small. Moderate. Bather Large. 

Small. Rather Full. Large. 

Rather Small. Full. Very Large. 

It has been found convenient to express these degrees in numbers, 
thus : — 

1. 8. (Rather Small.) 15. 

2. (Idiocy.) 9. 16. (Rather Large.) 

3. 10. (Moderate.) 17. 

4. (Very Small.) 11. 18. (Large.) 

5. 12. (Rather Full.) 19. 

6. (Small.) 13. 20. (Verv Large.) 

7. 14. (Full.) 21. 

The intermediate numbers, 3, 5, 7, &c, denote something between 
the two denominations, and have been found useful. 

In practice, the general size of the head is measured, in several 
directions, with calliper compasses. Twenty males, from 25 to 50 
years of age, measured, from the occipital spine (the bony knot over 
the hollow of the neck) to the point over the nose between the eye- 
brows, on an average, 7 1 /o inches; some of them being as high as 8%, 



and others as low as 6^. From the occipital spine to the hollow of 
the ear, the average was 4%, some being as high as 5, others as low 
as Sy 2 . From the hollow of the ear to the point between the eye- 
brows, as above, average nearly 5 ; some being 5%, others 4%. From 
the same hollow of the ear to the top of the head, about an inch be- 
hind the center (the organ of Firmness), the average was 5 9/15; some 
being 6*4, others 5%. Across the head, from a little below the tops 
of the ears (from Destructiveness to Destructiveness), the average 
was 5 3/10 ; some being 6V>, others 5%. The averages are in these 
twenty individuals higher than those of the natives of Britain gen- 
erally, some of them being large, and none small. 

Phrenologists further distinguish between power and activity in 
the organs of the brain. Power, in whatever degree possessed, is 
capability of feeling, perceiving, or thinking; while activity is the 
exercise of power, or the putting into action the organ with more or 
less intensity. 

The powers of mind, as manifested by the organs, are called fac- 
ulties. A faculty may be denned to be a particular power of thinking 
or feeling. A faculty has seven characteristics, in order to our con- 
cluding it primitive and distinct in the mind, namely, 1. When it 
exists in one kind of animal and not in another; 2. When it varies 
in the two sexes of the same species; 3. When it is not in proportion 
to the other faculties of the same individual; 4. When it appears 
earlier or later in life than the other faculties; 5. When it may act 
or repose singly; 6. When it is propagated from parent to child; 
arid, 7. When it may singly preserve health, or singly manifest 
disease. 

Division or Classification of the Faculties. — The faculties have been 
divided by Gall and Spurzheim into two great orders- — Feeling and In- 
tellect, or Affective and Intellectual Faculties. The Feelings are di- 
vided into two genera — the Propensities and the Sentiments. By a 
propensity is meant an internal impulse, which incites to a certain 
action and no more; by a sentiment, a feeling which, although it has 
inclination, has also an emotion superadded. 

The second order of faculties, the Intellectual, also suffers division 
into the Perceptive or Knowing, and the Reflective Faculties. The 
Perceptive Faculties are again divided into three genera — 1st, the 
External Senses and Voluntary Motion; 2d, the Internal powers which 
perceive existence, or make man and animals acquainted with external 



objects and their physical qualities; and, 3d, the powers which per- 
ceive the relations of external objects. The fourth genus comprises 
the Reflective Faculties, which act on all the other powers; in other 
words, compare, discriminate, and judge. 

The following is a table of the names of the organs synoptically 
given : — 



I. — Propensities. 

1. Amativeness. 

2. Philoprogenitiveness. 

3. Inhabitiveness and 
trativeness. 

4. Adhesiveness. 

5. Combativeness. 

6. Destructiveness. 

[ Alimenti veness. ] 
[Love of Life.] 

7. Secretiveness. 

8. Acquisitiveness. 

9. Constructiveness. 



22. Individualitv. 

23. Form. 

24. Size. 

25. Weight. 

26. Coloring. 

27. Locality. 



34. Comparison. 



Affective 






II. — Sentiments. 


10. 


Self-Esteem. 


11. 


Love of Approbation. 


Concen-12. 


Cautiousness. 


13. 


Benevolence. 


14. 


Veneration. 


15. 


Firmness. 


16. 


Conscientiousness. 


17. 


Hope. 


18. 


Wonder. 


19. 


Ideality. 


20. 


Wit, or Ludicrousness, 


21. 


Imitation. 


Intellectual. 


I. — Percept 


ive. 


28. 


Number. - 


29. 


Order. 


30. 


Eventuality. 


31. 


Time. 


32. 


Tune. 


33. 


Language. 


II. — Reflective. 


35. 


Causality. 



ORDER FIRST.— FEELINGS. 
Genus I. — Propensities. 

The propensities are common to man and the lower animals; they 
neither perceive nor reason, but only feel. 

No. 1. — Amativeness. — This organ is situated immediately over the 
nape of the neck, and fills up the space between the ears behind, or 
rather between the mastoid processes, or projecting bones behind the 
ears. It generally forms a projection in that part, and gives a thick- 
ness to the neck when it is large, and a spareness when small. 



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As the basis of the domestic affections, it is one of great importance, 
and its regulation has ever been one of the prime objects of moral 
systems, laws, and institutions. 

No. 2. — Philoprogenitiveness. — This, in man as well as animals, is 
the feeling of the love of his offspring. It depends on no other faculty, 
as reason or benevolence ; it is primitive ; and in the mother, who, 
for wise reasons, is gifted with it most strongly, its object, the infant, 
instantly rouses it to a high state of excitement. It is situated in the 
middle of the back of the head, and when large projects like a por- 
tion of an ostrich egg. The organ is one of the easiest to distinguish 
in the human head. Those who are flat and perpendicular there, in- 
stead of being delighted are annoyed by children. It is generally 
smaller in males than in females, though sometimes found larger ; and 
men so organized delight to carry about and nurse children. The 
feeling gives a tender sympathy generally with weakness and helpless- 
ness ; and we find it often returned by the young themselves to the 
old and feeble. It is essential to a soft kind attendant on the sick, to 
a nurse or nursery-maid, and to a teacher of youth. It induces women 
to make pets of small and gentle animals, when tyrant circumstances 
have kept them single, and denied them offspring of their own. Its 
feelings are, by a kind Providence, rendered so delightful, that they 
are extremely apt to be carried the length of excess ; and spoiling and 
pampering children into vicious selfishness is the ruinous consequence. 

No. 3. — Inhabitiveness — Concentrativeness. — The organ is situated 
immediately above the preceding. The purpose of a faculty which 
prompts men to settle instead of roaming, which latter habit is incon- 
sistent with agriculture, commerce, and civilization, is obvious ; nos- 
talgia, or home-sickness, is the disease of the feeling. 

No. 4. — Adhesiveness. — This organ is at the middle of the posterior 
edge of the parietal bone. It attaches men, and even animals, to each 
other, and is the foundation of that pleasure which we feel, not only 
in bestowing but receiving friendship. It is the faculty which 
prompts the embrace and the shake of the hand, and gives the joy 
of being reunited to friends. Acting in conjunction with Amative- 
ness, it gn r es constancy and duration to the attachments of the 
married. Amativeness alone will not be found sufficient for this. 
Hence the frequent misery of sudden love marriages, as they are called, 
founded on that single impulse. The feeling attaches many persons 
to pets, such as birds, dogs, rabbits, horses, and other animals, es- 

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pecially when combined with Philoprogenitiveness. With this com- 
bination, the girl lavishes caresses on her doll and on her little 
companions. 

No. 5. — Combativeness. — The organ of this propensity is situated 
behind, and a little upward from, the ear; anatomically, at the 
posterior-inferior angle of the parietal bone. A small endowment of 
this faculty manifests itself in that over-gentle and indolent character, 
which is easily aggressed upon, easily repelled by the appearance of 
difficulty and trouble, and which naturally seeks the shades and 
eddy-corners of life. Nations so organized — the Hindoos, for exam- 
ple — are easily conquered by others, under whom they naturally sink 
into a condition more or less of servitude. A large endowment, on 
the other hand, shows itself in a love of danger for its own sake, a 
delight in adventurous military life, and a tendency to bluster, con- 
troversy, and turmoils of all kinds. Persons with large combativeness 
may be readily recognized in private society by their disposition to 
contradict and wrangle. They challenge the clearest propositions, 
and take a pleasure in doubting where everybody else is convinced. 
The generality of boys manifest an active combativeness in their ad- 
venturous spirit, hence their disposition to fighting, and to the work- 
ing of all kinds of petty mischief. To control and guide the pro- 
pensity is one of the most delicate, but almost most important, duties 
of the educator. When combativeness is deranged, we have a violent 
and noisy, and often a dangerous patient. Intoxication generally 
affords a great stimulus to it, hence, drunken quarrels and fightings. 

No. 6. — Destractiveness. — This organ is situated on both sides of the 
head, immediately over the external opening of the ear, extending a 
little forward and backward from it, and rising a trifle above the 
top or upper flap of the ear. It corresponds to the lower portion of 
the squamous plate of the temporal bone. When the organ is large, 
the opening of the ear is depressed. It is still generally considered 
as giving the impulse to kill and destroy; but, in man, this propen- 
sity is shown to have, under the control of the higher sentiments and 
intellect, a legitimate sphere of exercise. It prompts beasts and birds 
of prey to keep down the redundant breeds of the lower animals, and 
enables man to "kill" that he may "eat." Anger, resentment, and 
indignation, in all their shapes, likewise spring from this faculty. 

A small endowment of this faculty is one of the elements of a 
"soft" character. Persons so organized seem to want that which 

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gives momentum to human operations, like an axe wanting in back 
weight. 

Alimentiveness, or Appetite for Food. — Alimentiveness is the de- 
sire of, or appetite for, food. In this feeling, as such, the stomach is 
not concerned; its functions are strictly confined to the reception and 
digestion of our food. 

Alimentiveness, from its near neighborhood to Destructiveness, 
seems to have a peculiar influence on that faculty, rousing it to great 
energy when its own enjoyments are endangered or interrupted. 

Love of Life. — The self-preservation involved in the love of life is 
certainly not accounted for by any known organ or combination of 
organs. Cautiousness is fear of injury, fear of death ; but it is not 
love of life. This feeling is powerfully manifested by some when 
their life is in no danger, but who look upon the close of life as a 
very great evil. 

No. 7. — Secretiveness. — The order of this faculty will be observed to 
be situated immediately above that of Destructiveness, at the in- 
ferior edge of the parietal bone, or in the middle of the side of the 
brain. The legitimate use of the faculty is to exercise that control 
over the outward manifestation of the other faculties which is neces- 
sary to a prudent reserve. Without it, and of course, in those in 
whom the organ is small and the manifestation weak, the feelings 
express themselves too openly. 

No. 8. — Acquisitiveness. — The organ of this faculty is situated far- 
ther forward than, and a little above, Secretiveness, at the anterior- 
mferior angle of the parietal bone. 

The faculty of Acquisitiveness could not, and no faculty could, be 
given to man by his Creator for a mean, groveling, and immoral use ; 
accordingly, when we consider it aright, we recognize in it the dig- 
nity of the greatest utility. In a word, it is the faculty through 
whose impulse man accumulates capital, and nations are rendered 
rich, great, and powerful. Without the faculty, man would be con- 
tent to satisfy his daily wants, although even in this he would fail; 
but the surplus which, under the impulse of this faculty, he con- 
tributes to the store of wealth which accumulates from generation to 
generation, would not exist. Under proper regulation, then, the fac- 
ulty is of the greatest value to man; by means of it he "gathers up 
the fragments, that nothing may be lost." Excessive pursuit of 
wealth is, however, an abuse of the faculty, and too much the vice 

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of civilization, when it advances, as it has hitherto done, without, 
adequate moral improvement. 

No. 9. — Gonstructiveness. — The situation of this organ is immedi- 
ately behind the temples, in the frontal bone, above the spheno-tem- 
poral suture. The faculty of which this organ is the instrument, 
is the power of mechanically making, constructing, and fashioning, by 
changing the forms of matter. Many of the inferior animals possess 
it, as the bee, the beaver, birds, and insects. Some savages have it in 
such small endowments as never to have built huts or made clothes, 
or even the simplest instruments for catching fish. In all Operatives 
who excel in their arts — engravers, joiners, tailors, &e. — and in chil- 
dren who early manifest a turn for drawing figures, and cutting 
them out in paper, the organ is large. 

GENUS II.— SENTIMENTS. 
I. SENTIMENTS COMMON TO MAN AND THE LOWER 

ANIMALS. 

No. 10. — Self-Esteem. — The situation of this organ is at the top of 
the back of the head, at the center; forming, as it were, the curve or 
turn between the back and top of the head. Technically, it is a little 
above the posterior or sagittal angle of the parietal bones. When it 
is large, the head rises far upward and backward from the ear, in 
the direction of the organ. The legitimate use of the faculty of Self- 
Esteem, or Self -Love, is that degree of self-complacency which en- 
hances the pleasures of life, and which gives the individual confi- 
dence in his own powers, and leads him to apply them to the best 
advantage. It is sometimes called proper pride, or self-respect, in 
which form it aids the moral sentiments in resisting temptations to 
vice and self-degradation; this is called being above doing a criminal, 
a vicious, or a mean action. Its deficiency renders an individual too 
humble, and the world take him at his word, and push him aside. 
In large and uncontrolled endowment, it produces great abuses, and 
causes much annoyance and often misery to others. It is the quarrel- 
ing, insulting, domineering, tyrannizing, dueling faculty. In children 
it is pettishess, forwardness, and self-will, and produces disobedience. 
In adults, it gives arrogance, superciliousness and selfishness. 

No. 11. — Love of Approbation. — This organ is situated on each side 
close to Self-Esteem, and commences about half an inch from the 

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lambdoidal suture. It gives, when large, a marked fullness to the 
upper part of the back of the head. 

The faculty, unless kept in subordination by a very large and vigi- 
lant Conscientiousness, prompts to all the conventional insincerities 
and flatteries of society, from the dread that the truth will offend 
Self -Esteem, and draw down on the teller of it disapprobation. When 
Secretiveness is large and Conscientiousness small, Love of Approba- 
tion is profuse in the unmeaning compliments of society. 

No. 12. — Cautiousness. — The organ of this faculty is situated about 
the middle of the parietal bone on both sides. 

It has been said that fear is the fundamental feeling of this faculty. 
It is an important element in prudence, which places the individual on 
his guard and warns him not to be rash in his moral as well as his 
physical movements. In general, the organ is large in children — a 
wise and beneficent provision for their protection. The organ is often 
diseased, and then produces causeless dread of evil, despondency, and 
often suicide. 

II. SUPERIOR SENTIMENTS PROPER TO MAN. 

No. 13. — Benevolence. — The organ of this sentiment is situated at 
the upper part of the frontal bone, immediately before the fontanel, 
in the middle of the top of the forehead, where it turns to form part 
of the top of the head, or coronal surface. It is easily distinguished; 
and when large, gives a round elevated swell to that region. When 
the organ is small the forehead or top-front is low, flat, and retreating. 

The faculty of Benevolence gives more than compassion for, and a 
desire to relieve, suffering; it gives a wish that others should be 
positively happy; prompts to active, laborious, and continued exer- 
tions; and, unless Acquisitiveness be very large and powerful, to 
liberal giving to promote its favorite object. It differs essentially in 
its charity, "which suffereth long and is kind," "and vaunteth not 
itself," from that which springs from Love of Approbation. 

No. 14. — Veneration. — The organ of this faculty occupies the center 
of. the coronal region just at the fontanel — the center of the top of 
the head. The function of the faculty is the sentiment of feneration, 
or deference in general for superiority, for greatness, and goodness. 
Its highest object is the Deity. It is remarkable in how many in- 
stances the painters of sacred subjects have given large development 

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of this organ in the heads of their apostles and saints — no donbt, be- 
cause the pious individuals whom they would naturally select as 
studies for such characters, possessed the organ large. Veneration 
has no special object; it finds appropriate exercise with regard to 
whatever is deemed superior. "Without this sentiment to make man 
look up to man, a people would be like a rope of sand, and society 
could not exist. 

No. 15. — Firmness. — -The organ of this faculty occupies the top of 
the head, behind Veneration, in the middle line. It is a faculty of 
peculiar character. It gives fortitude, constancy, perseverance, and 
determination ; and when too powerful, it produces obstinacy, stub- 
bornness, and infatuation. With Self-Esteem, it renders the indi- 
vidual absolutely impracticable. The want of it is a great defect in 
character ; it is unsteadiness of purpose. 

No. 16. — Conscientiousness. — The organ of this sentiment is situ- 
ated on each side of the organ of Firmness, between the latter organ 
and that of Cautiousness. 

Conscientiousness gives the emotion of justice, but intellest is nec- 
essary to show on which side justice lies. The judge must hear both 
sides before deciding, and his very wish to be just will prompt him to 
do so. This faculty regulates all the other faculties by its rigid rules. 
Conscientiousness not only curbs our faculties when too powerful, but 
stimulates those that are too weak, and prompts us to duty even 
against strong inclinations. To cultivate it in children is most im- 
portant. 

No. 17. — Hope. — The organ of this faculty has its place on each 
side of Veneration, partly under the frontal, and partly under the 
parietal bone. When not regulated by the intellect, Hope leads to 
rash speculation, and, in combination with Acquisitiveness, to gamb- 
ling, both at the gaming-table and in the counting-house. It tends 
to render the individual credulous, and often indolent. In religion, 
hope leads to faith, and strongly disposes to a belief in a happy life 
to come. 

No. 18. — Wonder.— The organ of this faculty is situated on each 
side of that of Benevolence, with one other organ, that of Imitation, 
interposed^. Technically, it has its place in the lateral parts of the 
anterior region of the vertex. 

Persons with the faculty powerfully developed are fond of news, 
especially if striking and wonderful, and are always expressing as- 

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tonishment; their reading is much in the regions of the marvelous 
tales of wonder, of enchanters, ghosts, and witches. 

No. 19. — Ideality. — The organ of this faculty is situated farther 
down, but close to that of Wonder, along the temporal ridge of the 
frontal bone. 

The faculty delights in the perfect, the exquisite, the beau-ideal — 
something beyond the scenes of reality — something in the regions of 
romance and fancy — of the beautiful and the sublime. Those writers 
and speakers who possess it large, adorn all they say or write with 
its vivid inspirations. It is the organ of imagery. The faculty ren- 
ders conversation elevated, animated, and eloquent, the opposite of 
dry and dull. 

No. 20. — Wit, or the Ludicrous. — The organ of this faculty is situ- 
ated before, and a little lower than that of Ideality. When large, it 
gives a breadth to the upper region of the forehead. 

No. 21. — Imitation. — This organ is situated on each side of that of 
Benevolence. The Imitative arts depend on this faculty; and its 
organ is found large, accordingly, in painters and sculptors of emi- 
nence. 

ORDER SECOND.— INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES. 

By these faculties man and animals perceive or gain knowledge of 
the external world, and likewise of their own mental operations. The 
object of the faculties is to know what exists, and to perceive quali- 
ties and relations. Dr. Spurzheim divided them into three genera : — 
1. The External Senses; 2. The Internal Senses, or Perceptive Fac- 
ulties, which procure knowledge of external objects, their physical 
qualities and relations; 3. The Reflecting Faculties. 

Genus I. — External Senses. — By these, man and the inferior animals 
are brought into communication with the external material world. 
The Senses, as generally received, are five in number — Touch, Taste, 
Smell, Hearing, and Sight. There are certainly two more, namely, 
the sense of Hunger and Thirst, and the Muscular sense, or that by 
which we feel the state of our muscles as acted upon by gravitation 
and the resistance of matter. Without this last sense we could not 
keep our balance, or suit our movements to the laws of the mechanical 
world. 

Genus II. — Intellectual Faculties, which Procure Knowledge of Ex- 

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ternal Objects, of their Physical Qualities, and Various Relations. — 

These faculties correspond in some degree with the perqeptive powers 
of the meta-physicians, and form ideas. 

No. 22. — Individuality .--The organ of this faculty is situated in 
the middle of the lower part of the forehead, immediately above the 
top of the nose. It takes cognizance of individual existencies — of a 
horse for example. As Individuality merely observes existences with- 
out regard to their modes of action, it is the faculty of the naturalist. 
Those who possess it large and active, observe the minutest objects; 
nothing escapes them, and they remember even the minutest objects 
so well, that they will miss them when taken away. On the contrary, 
those who have it small, observe nothing, and give the most imperfect 
account of the objects which have been in their way. 

No. 23. — Form. — This organ is situated on each side of, and close 
to the crista galli, and occupies the space between the eyes. In those 
who have it large, the eyes are wide asunder and vice versa. As 
every material object must have a form, regular or irregular, this 
faculty was given to man and animals to perceive forms, and they 
could not exist without it. "When large, it constitutes an essential 
element in a talent for drawing, but requires Size and Constructive- 
ness to perfect the talent. 

No. 24. — Size. — Every object has a size or dimension. Hence a 
faculty is necessary to cognize this quality. The organ is situated at 
the inner extremities of the eyebrows, where they turn upon the 
nose. A perception of Size is important to our movements and ac- 
tions, and essential to our safety. There is no accuracy in drawing 
or perspective without this organ. 

No. 25. — Weight. — Weight is a quality of matter quite distinct from 
all its other qualities. The weight of any material object is only 
another name for its degree of gravitating tendency — its attracta- 
bility to the earth. A power to perceive the different degrees of this 
attraction is essential to man's movements, safety, and even exist- 
ence. There must be a faculty for that perception, and that faculty 
must have a cerebral instrument or organ. Phrenologists have gen- 
erally localized that organ in the superorbital ridge or eyebrow, im- 
mediately next to Size, and farther from the top of the nose. 

No. 26. — Coloring. — As every object must have a color in order to 
be visible, it seems necessary that there should be a faculty to cognize 
this quality. The organ is the next outward from Weight in the 

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eyebrows, occupying the precise center of each eyebrow. 

No. 27. — Locality. — Objects themselves are cognized by Individu- 
ality; but their place, the direction where they lie, the way to them 
depend on another faculty, a faculty given for that purpose. With- 
out such a power, men and animals must, in situations where objects 
were numerous, and complicated in their positions, as woods, have 
lost their way. No man could find his own home, no bird its own 
nest, no mouse its own hole. The faculty, when active, prompts the 
individual to localize everything, and think of it as in its place. One 
glance at a paragraph or advertisement in a newspaper fixes its place 
in their minds, so that they will turn over the largest and most volu- 
minous newspaper, and know in what column, and part of a column, 
they will find it; or direct others to do so. A person with the faculty 
powerful, will go in the dark to find what he wants, and will find it 
if in its place. Skillful chess-players invariably have the organ of 
Locality large, and it is believed that it is the organ of which they 
make the principal use ; for it gives the power of conceiving, before 
making a move, the effect of new relative positions of the pieces. 

No. 28. — Number. — The organ of this faculty is placed at the outer 
extremity of the eyebrows and angle of the eye. It occasions, when 
large, a fullness or breadth of the temple, and often draws downward 
the external corner of the eye. When it is small, the part is flat and 
narrow between the eye and the temple. Their number is a very 
important relation or condition of things, and requires a distinct per- 
spective power. Our safety, and even existence, may depend on a 
clear perception of Number. 

No. 29. — Order. — The organ of this faculty is placed in the eye- 
brow, between Coloring and Number, and is large and prominent, and 
often pointed like a limpet-shell, in those who are remarkable for 
love of method,, arrangement, and symmetry, and are annoyed by 
confusion and irregularity. The marked love of order in some per- 
sons, and their suffering from disorder, are feelings which no other 
faculty, or combination of faculties, seems to embrace. 

No. 30. — Eventuality. — The organ of this faculty is situated in the 
very center of the forehead, and when large, gives to this part of the 
head a rounded prominence. Individuality has been called the fac- 
ulty of nouns: Eventuality is the faculty of verbs. The first per- 
ceives mere existence ; the other motion, change, event, history. All 
knowledge must be of one or the other of these two descriptions — 

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either things that are or things that happen. In the following ex- 
amples — the MAN speaks, the WIND blows, the DAY dawns, the 
nouns cognized by Individuality are printed in capitals, while the 
verbs, addressed to Eventuality, are in black type. 

No. 31. — Time. — Whatever be the essence of time as an entity, it is 
a reality to man, cognizable by a faculty by which he observes its 
lapse. Some persons are called walking timepieces; they can tell 
the hour without looking at a watch ; and some even can do so, nearly, 
when waking in the night. The faculty also marks the minute di- 
visions of duration, and their relations and harmonies, which are 
called time in music, and rhythm in versification. 

No. 32. — Tune. — The organ of this faculty is situated still further 
out than that of Time, giving roundness to the point where the fore- 
head turns to form the temples. It is large in great musicians; and 
when small and hollow, there is an utter incapacity to distinguish 
either melody or harmony. 

No. 33. — Language. — A faculty is given to man and animals which 
connects feelings with signs and cries; but to man alone is given 
articulate speech. The comparative facility with which different men 
clothe their thoughts in words, depends on the size of this organ, 
which is situated in the super-orbital plate, immediately over the 
eyeball, and when large, pushes the eye outward, and sometimes down- 
ward, producing, in the latter case, a wrinkling or pursing of the 
lower eyelid. There is no fluent speaker deficient in this organ. 

Internal Excitement of the Knowing Organs — Spectral Illusions. — 
The Knowing Organs are for the most part called into activity by 
external objects, such as forms, colors, sounds, individual things, &c. ; 
but internal causes often excite them, and when they are in action 
objects will be perceived which have no external existence, and which, 
nevertheless, the individual will believe to be real. This is the ex- 
planation of visions, specters and ghosts, and at once explains the 
firm belief of many that they have appeared to them, and the fact 
that it never happens that two persons see the same specters at the 
same time. 

GENUS III.— REFLECTIVE FACULTIES. 

The Intellectual Faculties already considered, give us knowledge 
of objects, and the qualities and relations of objects, also of the 

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changes they undergo, or events. 

No. 34. — Comparison. — Every faculty can compare its own objects. 
Coloring can compare colors; Weight, weights; Form, forms; Tune, 
sounds; but Comparison can compare a color with a note, or a form 
with a weight, &c. Analogy is a comparison not of things but of 
their relations. 

No. 35. — Causality. — This is the highest and noblest of the intellec- 
tual powers, and is the last in the phrenological analysis 'of the fac- 
ulties. Dr. Spurzheim so named it, from observing that it traces the 
connection between cause and effect, and sees the relation of ideas 
to each other in respect of necessary consequence. Its organs are 
situated on each side of Comparison. With a powerful perception of 
causation, the individual reasons from cause to effect by logical or 
necessary consequence. It is the faculty which sees principles and 
acts upon them, while the other two faculties only try experiments. 
Resource in difficulties, and sound judgment in life, are the result 
of powerful Causality. 

ORIENTAL ELECTRICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 

The most easy and direct mode to produce electro psychological 
communication is to take the individual by the hand, in the same 
manner as though you were going to shake hands. Press your 
thumb on the Ulnar nerve, which spreads its branches to the ring 
and little finger, an inch above the knuckle, and in range of the 
ring finger. Lay the ball of the thumb flat so as to cover the minute 
branches of this nerve of motion and sensation. When you first 
take him by the hand, request him to place his eyes upon yours, and 
to keep them fixed, so that he may see every emotion of your mind 
expressed in the countenance. Continue this pressure for a half a 
minute or more. Then request him to close his eyes, and with your 
fingers gently brush downward several times over the eyelids. 
Throughout the whole process feel within yourself a fixed determina- 
tion to close them so as to express that determination fully in your 
countenance and manner. Then place your N hand on the top of his 
head and press your thumb firmly on the organ of Individuality, 
bearing partially downward and with the other thumb still pressing 
the ulnar nerve, tell him— YOU CANNOT OPEN YOUR EYES. Re- 
member, that your manner, your expression of countenance, your 

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motions, and your language must all be of the most positive char- 
acter. If he succeeds in opening his eyes, try it once or twice more, 
because impressions, whether physical or mental, continue to deepen 
by repetition. In case, however, that you cannot close his eyes, nor 
see any effect produced upon them, you should cease making any 
further efforts, because you have now fairly tested that his mind 
and body both stand in a positive relation as it regards the doctrine 
of impressions. If you succeed in closing the subject's eyes by the 
above mode, you may then request him to put his hands on his head, 
or in any other position you choose, and tell him, YOU CAN NOT 
STIR THEM. In case you succeed, request him to be seated, and 
tell him, YOU CAN NOT EISE. If you are successful in this, re- 
quest him to put his hands in motion, and tell him, YOU CAN NOT 
STOP -THEM. If you succeed, request him to walk the floor, and tell 
him, YOU CAN NOT CEASE WALKING. And so you may continue 
to perform experiments involving muscular motion and paralysis of 
any kind that may occur to your mind, till you can completely con- 
trol him, in arresting or moving all the voluntary parts of his system. 

ORIENTAL METHOD OF CHARMING THOSE WHOM YOU MEET 

AND LOVE. 

When you desire to make anyone "Love" you, with whom you 
meet, although not personally acquainted with him, you can very 
readily reach him and make his acquaintance, if you observe the fore- 
going instructions, in addition to the following directions : Suppose 
you see him coming towards you in an unoccupied mood, or is reck- 
lessly, or passively walking past you, all that remains for you to do 
at that moment is to concentrate your thought and send it into him 
as before explained; and to your astonishment if he was passive, he 
will look at you, and now is your time to send a thrill to his heart, 
by looking at him carelessly, though determinately, into his eyes, 
and praying with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, that he 
may read your thought, and receive your true Love, which God de- 
signs we should bear one another. This accomplished, and you need 
not and must not wait for a cold-hearted, fashionable, and popular 
Christian introduction ; neither should you hastily run into his arms, 
but continue operating in this psychological manner; not losing any 
convenient opportunity to meet him at an appropriate place, when 

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an unembarrassed exchange of words will open the door, to the one 
so magnetized. At this interview, unless prudence sanction it, do 
not shake hands, but let your manners and loving eyes speak with 
Christian charity and ease ; wherever or whenever you meet again, 
at the first opportunity grasp his hand, in an earnest, sincere, and 
affectionate manner, observing at the same time, the following im- 
portant directions, viz. : As you take his bare hand in yours, press 
your thumb gently, though firmly, between the bones of the thumb 
and forefinger of his hand, and at the very instant when you press 
thus on the blood-vessels, (which you can before ascertain to pulsate,) 
look him earnestly and lovingly, though not pertly or fiercely, into 
his eyes, and send all your heart's, mind's and soul's strength into his 
organization, and he will be your friend, and if you find him not to 
be congenial, you have him in your power, and by carefully guard- 
ing against evil influences, you can reform him to suit your own 
purified Christian and loving taste. 



SECRET METHOD OF MESMERISM. 

If you desire to mesmerize a person, who has never been put into 
that state, nor in the least affected, the plan is to set him in an easy 
posture, and request him to be calm and resigned. Take him by 
both hands, or else by one hand and place your other gently on his 
forehead. But with whatever part of his body you choose to come in 
contact, be sure to always touch two points, answering to the positive 
and negative forces. Having taken him by both hands, fix your 
eyes upon his, and if possible let him contentedly and steadily look 
you in the face. Remain in this position until his eyes close. Then 
place both your hands on his head, gently pass them to his shoulders, 
down the arms, and off at the ends of his fingers. Throw your hands 
outward as you return them to his head, and continue these passes till 
he can hear no voice but yours. He is then entirely in the mesmeric 
state. When a person is in the mesmeric state, whether put there 
by yourself or some one else, you can awake him by the upward 
passes: or else do it by an impression, as follows: Tell him: "I 
will count three, and at the same instant I say 'three' I will clap 
my hands together, and you will be wide awake and in your perfect 
senses. Are you ready?" If he answers in the affirmative, you will 

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proceed to count "one, two, THREE." The word 'three' should be 
spoken suddenly, and in a very loud voice, and at the same instant the 
palms of the hands should be smitten together. This will instantly 
awake him. 



HOW TO MAKE PERSONS AT A DISTANCE THINK OF YOU. 

Let it be particularly remembered that "Faith" and concentration 
of thought are positively needful to accomplish aught in drawing 
others to you or making them think of you. If you have not the 
capacity or understanding how to operate an electric telegraph bat- 
tery, it is no proof that an expert and competent person should fail 
doing so; just so in this case: if faith, meditation, or concentration 
of thought fail you, then will you also fail to operate upon others. 
First, you must have a yearning for the person you wish to make 
think of you, and secondly, you must learn to guess at what time of 
day or night he may be unemployed, passive, so that he be in a 
proper state to receive the thought which you dispatch to him. If 
he should be occupied in any way, so that his nervous forces were 
needed to complete his task, his "Human Battery," or thought would 
not be in a recipient or passive condition, therefore your experiment 
would fail at that moment. Or if he were under heavy narcotics, 
liquors, tobacco, or gluttonous influences, he could not be reached at 
such, moments. Or, if he were asleep, and you operated to affect a 
wakeful mind or thought, you Avould fail again at the moment. To 
make a person at a distance think of yoii, whether you are acquainted 
with him or not, matters not; I again repeat, find out or guess at 
what moment he is likely to be passive ; by this I mean easy and 
careless; then, with the most fervent prayer, or yearning of your 
entire heart, mind, soul and strength, desire to may think of you, 
and if you wish him to think on any particular topic in relation to 
you, it is necessary for you to press your hands, when operating on 
him, on such mental faculties of your head as you wish him to exer- 
cise towards you. This demands a meagre knowledge of Phrenology. 
His "Feeling Nature," or "Propensities," you cannot reach through 
these operations, but when he once thinks of you, (if he does not 
know you he imagines such a being as you are), he can easily after- 
wards be controlled by you, and he will feel disposed to go in the 

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direction where you are, if circumstances permit, and he is his own 
master, for, remember, circumstances alter "cases. I said, you cannot 
reach his "Feelings,'-' but only his "Thinking Nature," truly, but 
after he thinks of you once, his "Feeling Nature," or propensities, 
may become aroused through his own organization. In conclusion 
on this topic, let me say, that if you wish the person simply to think 
of you, one operation may answer; but on the contrary, if you wish 
him to meet you, or go where you are, all you have to do is to per- 
severe in a lawful and Christian manner to operate, and I assure you, 
in the course of all natural things, that is, if no accident or very 
unfavorable circumstances occur, he will make his way towards you, 
and when he comes within sight, or speaking distance of you, it will 
be easy to manage him. 



THINGS KEPT SECRET FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE 

WORLD. 
THE WISDOM OF THE SAGES, AND OF THE REMOTE ANTIQUI- 
TIES OF AGES AND GENERATIONS, IN THE EAST. 
THE FATE OF THE APOSTLES. 

St. Matthew was slain with the sword at the city of Ethiopia. 

St. Mark was dragged through the streets of Alexandria in Egypt 
until he expired. 

St. Luke was hanged upon an olive tree in Greece. 

St. John was put into a caldron of boiling oil at Rome and escaped 
death. He afterwards died a natural death at Ephesus in Asia. 

St. James the Great was beheaded at Jerusalem. 

St. James the Less was beaten to death with a fuller's club. 

St. Phillip was hanged up against a pillar at Hieropolis, a city of 
Phrygia. 

St. Bartholomew was flayed alive by the command of a barbarous 
king. 

St. Andrew was bound to a cross till he expired. 

St. Thomas was run through the body with a lance. 

St. Jude was shot to death with arrows. 

St. Simon Zealot was crucified in Persia. 

St. Mathias was stoned and then beaten to death or beheaded. 

St. Barnabas was stoned to death by the Jews at Salania. 

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St. Paul was beheaded at Rome by the Tyrant Nero. 



GEMS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON WEEK DAYS. 

The Hermetic Brethren had certain rules which they observed in 
relation to the power of precious stones to bring good fortune 
through the planetary affinities of certain days, because they imag- 
ined that the various gems, as well as precious metals, were produced 
through the chemical operations of the planets working secretly 
within the body of the earth. 

Sunday. — All yellow stones and gold. 

Monday. — Pearls, and all white stones except diamonds. 

Tuesday. — Rubies. 

Wednesday. — Sapphires, turquoise, and all blue stones. 

Thursday. — Garnets and all red stones. 

Friday. — Emeralds and all green stones. 

Saturday. — Diamonds. 



FOR A GIRL TO ASCERTAIN IF SHE WILL MARRY SOON. 

Find a green pea-pod with exactly nine peas in it, and hang it 
over the door of a room or entry-way without letting anybody know 
that you have done so ; you must then watch the door- and see who 
goes through first; if it is a bachelor, or an unmarried young man, 
you will positively be married before the current of peas is disposed 
of ; if it is a woman, you will have to sigh in single blessedness an- 
other year ; if a married man, be careful and not allow your lover 
too much liberty in his attentions, or the consequences may be re- 
gretted. 



A SECRET SYSTEM OF PALMISTRY. 

For this purpose the left hand is always the one chosen, it being 
supposed that the heart and brain have more influence over it than 
its fellow. The principal line in it — called the Line of Life — incloses 
the thumb, and separates it from the hollow of the hand. The next 

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to it, called the natural line, takes its beginning from the rising of 
the middle finger. The table line, commonly known as the Line of 
Fortune, begins under the little and ends near the forefinger. The 
Girdle of Venus — another line — begins near the joint of the fore- 
finger, and ends in the middle one. The line of death is a counter line 
to the Life Line, and by some called the Sister Line. There are other 
lines in the fleshly parts, as in the ball of the thumb, which is called 
the Mount of Venus. The hollow of the hand is called the Plain of 
Mars. 

If the lines which are in the middle of the hand, called the Table 
Lines, are broad and fair, without being broken, it is a sign that, 
with care and industry, the person will lead a happy life ; but if 
broken, it shows that great prudence is needed to avert threatened 
misfortune. If the line from the wrist goes straight to the middle 
finger, it denotes that the person will live to a great age ; but should 
the line want continuity, the presage is not favourable. 

If the Line of Life — the one running from the wrist by the ball of 
the thumb, and ending beneath the forefinger — is clear and un- 
broken, it foretells prosperity and happy old age; but if undistinct 
and interrupted, bad news and short line. Round lines, like semi- 
circles, on the inside of the tips of the fingers, promise houses, land 
and inheritance. 

If the middle or table lines of the hands are very narrow and 
crooked, or contracted, it is a sign of poverty and misfortune. 

If a crooked line goes through the table lines, it foretells a danger- 
ous accident, occasioned by carelessness ; but if straight and even it 
is a good sign. 



SEVERAL CHARACTERS OR SEMBLANCES OF LETTERS AND 
LINES IN THE HAND, AS THEY TEND TO SIGNIFY MANY 
THINGS, ACCORDING TO THE HIDDEN ART OF ORIENTAL 
PALMISTRY. 

There are in this case divers letters, lines appearing in the hand, 
by which the wise in all ages have given judgment in the foregoing 
premises : 

If the letter A be found on the Mount of Jupiter, or at the root 
of the middle finger, promises growing fortune, and, perhaps, con- 

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siderable preferments by the favor of princes and great men. 

If B be found on the Mount of the Sun, which is at the root of the 
finger, it signifies length of days, prosperity, and much to be beloved ; 
as also a virtuous person. 

If C, with a star over it, appears on the Mount of Venus, it gives 
the person early and happy life. 

If the letter L be on the Mount of Saturn, which is at the root of 
the middle finger, and cut with cross lines, it denotes the party to 
be under much affliction, to be given to melancholy, and short lived. 

The letter K on the Mount of Mercury, which is at the root of the 
little finger, denotes the party to rise to preferments by ingenuity 
and marriage. 

The letter D on the Mount of the Moon denotes the party kind, 
good-natured and much beloved. 

The letter G- on the Plain of Mars, near the Line of Life, speaks 
the party to be of a violent temper, given to anger ; and threatens 
him or her with sudden and untimely death; however to a woman it 
promises a husband that grows great in military affairs, and thus 
much for character of this kind. 



TRUTHFUL PROGNOSTICS FROM EGYPT, FOUND IN THE 
LIBRARY OF DR. PLEIN HORATIO, ASTRONOMER OF THE 
KHEDIVE OF EGYPT: AS FOLLOWS. 

Whereas, forty-two days of an entire year are unfortunate days, 
according to a Greek author, he who gets sick on one of these days 
mentioned hereafter, will not easily recover, viz. : 

The 1, 2, 6, 11, 17, 18 January 

The 8, 16, 17 February 

The 1, 12, 13, 15 March 

The 3, 15, 17, 18 April 

The 8, 10, 17, 30 May 

The 1, 7, 10 June 

The 1, 5, 6 July 

The 1, 3, 18, 20 August 

' The 15, 18, 30 .' September 

The 15, 17 October 

The 1, 7, 11 November 

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The 1, 7, 11 December 

Hereby is to be noted : 

1. A child born on such a day will not live long, and if it lives, 
it will be of poor health and vigor. 

2. If persons marry on any of these days, they will be apt to 
separate, and live in quarrel and poverty. 

3. If a person commences a voyage on such a day, he will gen- 
erally return home sick, or meet with an accident in body or goods. 

4. On such days, do not commence to build, sell no young cattle, 
nor sow or plant anything. Do what you may, it will all come to 
trouble. 

5. During these mentioned forty-two days, five days are especially 
unlucky days, on which no journey should be taken, namely : The 
3d of March, the 17th of August, the 1st, 2nd, and 30th of September. 
To this must be again noted thereof, three days are especially un- 
lucky days, and any man shedding blood on such a day will surely 
die within seven or eight days thereafter, as namely: 

The 1st day of April, on which Judas the traitor was born. 
. The 1st of August, the devil was rejected from heaven. 

The 1st of December, Sodom and Gomorrha was destroyed. 

Whoever is born on any of these unhappy days, he will die of a 
violent death, or will be disgraced before the world, and seldom 
reaches old age. 



BRIEF PROGNOSTICATIONS CONCERNING CHILDREN BORN 
ON ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. 

A child born on SUNDAY shall be of long life and obtain riches. 

A child born on MONDAY will be weak and effeminate. 

TUESDAY is more unfortunate still, though a child born on this 
day may, by extraordinary vigilance, conquer the inordinate desires 
to which he will be subject; still, in his reckless attempts to gratify 
them, he will be in danger of a violent death. 

The child born on WEDNESDAY will be given to a studious life, 
and shall reap great profit therefrom. 

A child born on THURSDAY shall attain great honor and dignity. 

He who calls FRIDAY his natal day shall be of a strong constitu- 
tion, and perhaps addicted to the pleasures of love. 

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SATURDAY is another ill-omened day; niost children born on this 
day will be of heavy, dull, and dogged disposition. 



PREDICTIONS CONCERNING CHILDREN BORN ON ANY DAY 

IN THE WEEK. 

SUNDAY: The child born on Sunday will obtain great riches, be 
long lived, and enjoy much happiness. 

MONDAY: Children born on this day will not be very successful 
in most enterprises they may engage in, being irresolute, subject to 
be imposed upon through their good natured dispositions; they are 
generally willing and ready to oblige everyone who asks, a favor 
from them. 

TUESDAY: The person born on this day will be subject to violent 
starts of passion, and not easily reconciled ; if a man, given to illicit 
connections, from which conduct many serious consequences and mis- 
fortunes will arise, and he will never be safe, being in danger of 
suffering death by violence, if he does not put a restraint upon his 
vicious inclinations. 

WEDNESDAY : The child ushered into the world on this day will 
be of a studious and sedate turn of mind; and if circumstances will 
allow, fond of perusing the literary works of the most talented ancient 
and modern authors. Should facilities be afforded to such a one, 
there is every probability of his being a highly-gifted author. 

THURSDAY: Those who first see the light on this day may in 
general have applied to them the appellation of being "born with a 
silver spoon in their mouths"; for, unless they resolutely spurn from 
them the Plutonic deity, riches will be poured into their lap with no 
niggard hand. 

FRIDAY : The little stranger who first inhales the vital air on 
this day will be blessed with a strong constitution, and will be lucky 
in every enterprise through life, happy in his or her domestic rela- 
tions, and finally die rich and lamented. 

SATURDAY: This is an unlucky day for being ushered into this 
world of sin and sorrow; but those born on this last day of the week 
may become good members of society, honored and respected by 
their fellow-creatures, and blessed by the Almighty. 



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HOW TO TELL A PERSON'S CHARACTER BY MEANS OF CABA- 
LISTIC CALCULATIONS. 

This is said to have been the invention of the sage of Pythagoras, 
whose doctrine was that everything in the universe was represented 
and governed by certain figures or numbers, to which he ascribed 
mysterious properties and virtues. According to him, everything, 
from the Supreme Being Himself, down to the minutest atom, was 
distinguished by its own proper number; and his belief was shared 
by numberless other philosophers. Without entering into any detail 
of this system, we will proceed to describe how these calculations are 
made. An alphabetical table must be first prepared, with its corre- 
sponding numbers, thus : 



A 
1 


B 1 

2 ! 


c 

3 


4 


E 

5 


F 

6 


i 


H I 

8 | 


I 
9 


1 K 
1 10 


L | 
20 | 


M 
30 


N 
40 


O 

50 


P 
60 


Q 1 

70 1 


R I 

80 | 


S 1 

i 

90 


! T 
| 100 


200 | 


X 

300 


1 Y 
400 


500 


1 J 
600 


! v 

700 | 


Hi 

800 | 


Hu j 

900 j 



This is accompanied by a list of numbers, with their various inter- 
pretations and significations, as follows : 

1. Passion, ambition, design. 

2. Destruction, death, catastrophe. 

3. Eeligion, destiny, the soul, charms. 

4. Solidity, wisdom, power. 

5. The stars, happiness, graces, marriage. 

6. Perfection, labor. 

7. Course of life, repose, liberty, perfect happiness. 

8. Justice, preservation. 

9. Imperfections, diminution, grief, pain, expectation. 
^10. Success, reason, future happiness. 

11. Faults, punishment, discord, prevarication. 

12. Good omen, a town, or city. 

13. Impiety. 

14. Sacrifice, purification. 

15. Piety, self -culture. 

16. Love, happiness, voluptuousness. 



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17. Misfortune, forgetfulness. 

18. Hardening of the heart, misfortune. 

19. Folly. 

20. Austerity, sadness. 

21. Mystery, wisdom, the creation. 

22. A scourge, the divine vengeance. 

23. Ignorance of the doctrines of Christianity 

24. A journey. 

25. Intelligence, a birth. 

26. Useful works. 

27. Firmness, courage. 

28. Love tokens. 

29. Letters. 

30. Fame, a wedding. 

31. Love of glory, virtue. 

32. Marriage. 

33. Purity. 

34. Suffering, trouble of mind. 

35. Health, harmony. 

36. Genius, vast conception. 

37. Domestic virtues, conjugal love. 

38. Imperfection, avarice, envy. 

39. Praise. 

40. Fetes, wedding. 

41. Ignominy. 

42. A short and unhappy life, the tomb 

43. Religious ceremonies, a priest. 

44. Power, pomp, monarchy. 

45. Population. 

46. Fertility. 

47. Long and happy life. 

48. Tribunal, judgment, judge. 

49. Love of money. 

50. Pardon, liberty. 
60. Widowhood. 

70. Initiated, science, the graces. 

75. The world. 

77. Pardon, repentance. 

80. A cure. 



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81. An adept. 

90. Blindness, error, affliction. 
100. Divine favor. 
120. Patriotism, praises. 
200. Irresolution. 
' 215. Calamity. 
300. Safety, belief, faith, philosophy. 
318. Divine messenger. 
350. Hope, justice. 
360. Hope, society. 
365. Astronomy. 

400. Long and wearisome voyage. 
450. Priests, theology. 
500. Holiness. 
600. Perfection. 

666. A malicious person, machinations, plots, enemies. 
700. Strength. 
800. Empire. 

900. War, combat, struggles. 
1000. Mercy. 
1095. Taciturnity. 
12G0. Torments. 
1390. Persecution. 

Now, write down the name of the person whose character you wish 
to learn, and beneath each letter composing it, place the correspond- 
ing number. (Should the letter W be one of them, it must be repre- 
sented by two V's, which will give the number 1,400.) Add them 
all together, and by comparing the product with the table of sig- 
nifications, you will discover what you wish to know. When the 
product exceeds the highest number given in the table, the first num- 
ber is cut off, and the remainder alone used. We give an example, 
supposing the name to be Jean Jacques Rousseau: 

J .... 600 J 600 R 80 

E 5 A 1 O 50 

A 1 C 3 U 200 

N 40 O 70 S 90 

90 

5 

1 

200 

969 

716 
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600 


J 


5 


A 


1 


C 


40 


Q 





u 


646 


E 




S 



600 


R 


1 


O 


3 


U 


70 


s 


200 


s 


5 


E 


90 


A 





U 



646 . Jean 

969 Jacques 

716 Rousseau 

2331 Total 

Of this total of 2,331, Ave cut off the 2,000, leaving 331, which, on 
reference to the table of significations, reads as follows: "Belief, 
faith, and philosophy," for 300; "love of glory, virtue," for 31; 
giving no bad sketch of his character. It may be as well to observe 
that, when the total consists of a number not precisely marked on 
the table, the answer may be obtained by dividing it into hundreds, 
tens, and units; thus, supposing the number obtained was 179, it could 
be divided into 100, 70, and 9. Care must be taken to add up the 
lines of figures correctly, as the slightest . mistake will, of course, 
entirely change the whole meaning. 



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tery. This work is dedicated to the Light of the Spirit which illumines 
the pathway of man in his steps through the ages. The Bible has ever 
been a lamp to the feet (Understanding), a guide to the pathway 
(Life). 

Jesus said the time has come when that which was secret should 
be taught, and that which was hidden should be brought to light; this 
is the mission of this course. Price Complete, $12.00. 

Course No. 7. 

"10 Lessons in MASTER MIND POWER," by the Cabir, Prernel 

el Adaros. 
Containing a full but condensed, systematic course in applied psy- 
chology. Treating on all of the many phases of applied psychology in 
regard to success, super-concentration, introspection, the Real and the 
Unreal; elucidating what is essential to bring into manifestation the 
ideal of wealth, peace, contentment, freedom, health, love, or success, 
with many exercises which are positively practical. Price complete, 
$10.00. 

Course No. 8. 

"10 Lessons in TRANSCENDENT SCIENCE'S SYSTEM OF 
EGYPTIAN MIND READING, " by the Cabir, Prernel el Adaros. 
Expounding most of the Transcendent and Clandestine secrets of 
prevision, and the manifestation of super-extraordinary clairvoyance. 
Each lesson embodying many facts which are necessary for the ad- 
vancement and maintenance of the inward vision in regard to the 
objective preponderence as generated psychologically. A great Oriental 
system of practical Mind-Reading, each lesson will prove a mine of 
information to the earnest student. Price Complete, $10.00. 

Course No. 9. 

"PERSONAL MAGNETISM," OR THE TRUE SCIENCE OF PER- 
SONAL INFLUENCE AND FASCINATION, by the Cabir, 
Prernel el Adaros. 
This wonderful and original course of instruction has been specially 
prepared for the materially minded public, for those who desire some- 
thing that is absolutely practical and especially arranged for business 
men. Teaches all the great Oriental secrets in regard to personal in- 

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fluence, the mastery., of the Will, realisation, idealisation, manifestation, 
containing the great Oriental secrets for the development of beauty 
and the cure of obesity, the magnetic hand-shake, fascination, and secret 
teachings in regard to personal magnetism. Complete, Price $25.00. 

Course No. 10. 

"ADEPTSHIP AND ITS DEVELOPMENT," by the Cabir, Premel 

el Adaros. 
In wonderful English this course sets forth the miraculous prin- 
ciples of Transcendent Science in regard to the Transcendent forces of 
the Universe that when generated, directed and controlled by the 
intelligence of man brings through realisation into manifestation the 
ideal force of the adept; being the true and approved occult secrets in 
regard to the development of occult phenomena. Price complete $25.00. 

Course No. 11. 

"TRANSCENDENT SCIENCE'S ADVANCED; COURSE IN META- 
PHYSICAL HEALING," by the Cabir, Premel el Adaros. 
This great and marvellous course consists of only the practical knowl- 
edge in regard to occult, divine, spiritual, Mesmeric, psychic, and sug- 
gestive healing. Treating on all the ancient and modern positive and 
scientific methods of psycho-therapeutics, along with many wonderful 
exercises for the practical application of the same and the distribution 
and generation of the nervous forces, thus enabling any beginner or 
advanced student to manifest success in regard to healing powers. 
Giving in simple English all the scientific philosophy in regard to oc- 
cult healing, thus placing in the student's hand a complete abridgement 
of the healing as taught in the magnetic sciences. Course complete, 
$15.00. . 

Course No. 12. 

"TRANSCENDENT SCIENCE SYSTEM OF PHRENO-MAG- 

NETISM," by the Cabir, Premel el Adaros. 
Comprised of three lessons with three penned phrenological charts, 
enables a student to understand the beginning of self-knowledge, 
through the science of phrenology, with descriptions and definitions 
of the faculty and the organs and brain centres, with a scientific method 
in regard to character reading. Price $5.00. 



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Course No. 13. 

" TRANSCENDENT SCIENCES SYSTEM OF SUGGESTIVE AND 
PSYCHO-THERAPEUTICS/' by the Cabir, Premel el Adaros.. 
This wonderful course is composed of six lessons price complete $5.00. 



Address all orders and communications to 

Premel el Adaros, President, 

Society of Transcendent Science, 

Masonic Temple, 

Chicago, Illinois. 



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